ROB HALFORD was ‘pissed’ when he found out JUDAS PRIEST would be receiving the ‘Musical Excellence’ award at ROCK HALL

Rob Halford admitted he was “pissed off” when he found out that JUDAS PRIEST would receive the Musical Excellence Award at this year’s Festival Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

PRIEST will receive the award at the fall 2022 event, which will honor Eminem, Dolly Parton, DURAN-DURAN, Lionel Richie, Pat Benatar, EURYTHMIC and carly simon in the Performers category.

The Musical Excellence Award – originally titled the “Sidemen” category when it first debuted – is given to artists, musicians, songwriters and producers whose originality and influence in the creation of music have had a dramatic impact on the music.

In 2010, when the Sidemen category was renamed the Music Achievement Award, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation President Joel Peresman Told The ordinary merchant the category “gives us the opportunity to delve into certain things and recognize certain people who would normally not be recognized”.

JUDAS PRIEST is the second band to receive the Music Excellence Award; the E STREET BAND Was the first. Last year, late OZZY OSBOURNE and CALM RIOT guitarist Randy Rhoads was one of the recipients of the Music Excellence Award.

When asked by the Arizona Republic how he felt when he found out that he and his bandmates were going to receive the Music Achievement Award from Rock and Roll Hall of Fame This year, Halford said, “Why didn’t they give us the same title as all our friends. BLACK SABBATH, for example. There’s a different label, isn’t there? I was furious. I was a little pissed off. In the end, does it matter?”

He continued: “Some days I say, ‘No, it’s okay. We are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Be grateful. Shut up the fuck.’ And then there are other days when I’m like, ‘God, why did they give us the award for musical excellence?’ Because it sounds very, you know, grand. “The award for musical excellence, reserved for blah, blah, blah.” And I’m like, ‘Yeah, but I want to be with that group of musicians over there who have the performance or whatever else they have.'”

Halford added, “I don’t know why they gave us the Music Excellence Award. I have no idea. I just kinda thought to myself, ‘Well, SABBATH I got it. So why can’t we have that? Not that I’m jealous SABBATH. I’m just talking about that label they give it. Why do they put these labels on this fucking thing? Why don’t they go, ‘Welcome. You are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame‘ and leave it at that.

“A lot of our fans said, ‘What the hell is that?’ “Oh, you know, they’re a great group. It’s an excellent group.” “But why put Musical Excellence? Why not give them away like everyone else has?”

“I know it’s silly, but it’s just frustrating. And on the other side, it’s like, ‘Great. Everyone got that and we got screwed with it.’ [Laughs] JUDAS PRIEST are always the Rodney Dangerfield of heavy metal. They cannot be respected.”

The induction ceremony will take place on November 5, 2022 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. It will be broadcast at a later date on HBO and broadcast on HBO Max. There will also be a simulcast radio broadcast on SiriusXMit is Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Radio channel 310.

According to Hall of famethe JUDAS PRIEST members to be inducted include current members Halford, Ian Hill (low),Glenn Tipton (guitar) and Scott Travis (drums), with former members KK Downing (guitar),The Binks (drums) and deceased drummer david holland.

JUDAS PRIEST was previously on the ballot for rock room induction in 2020, but did not receive enough votes to promote that year.

Inducted since 1999, PRIEST was also on the ballot for the class of 2018 of the Rock and Roll Hall of Famebut was ultimately excluded from the list of inductees.

To be eligible for nomination, an individual artist or group must have released their first commercial recording at least 25 years prior to the year of nomination.

Although artists are eligible for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25 years after the release of their first album or single, iconic hard rock and metal bands like IRON MAIDEN and MOTORHEAD have not yet been recognized by the institution, which has inducted GUNS N’ ROSES in the first year of eligibility for that group.

The rock room did not induct BLACK SABBATH until 2006, and METALLIC followed three years later.

Eligible for induction since 1999, EMBRACE only got his first nomination in 2009 and was finally inducted in 2014.

DARK PURPLE was eligible for the rock room since 1993 but was only inducted in 2016.